Pyramid on cloud

[Bruce Wade]

Hi,

What are the recommendations for deploying on a cloud. Any cloud hosting companies recommended for a pyramid based application?

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[Joe Dallago]

I have a membership with linode.com.  Really love their customer service and web UI.  I feel like I am always referring them to people.

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[Blaise Laflamme]

I'm using both linode.com and rackspacecloud.com and they're great.

[Thomas G. Willis]

appengine.google.com  is not a bad way to go once python 2.7 support is made official, but you have to write your app for it, and that of course has it's own benefits and drawbacks.

[Bruce Wade]

What are thoughts on http://www.heroku.com/?

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appengine.google.com  is not a bad way to go once python 2.7 support is made official, but you have to write your app for it, and that of course has it's own benefits and drawbacks.

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[ravi teja]

I like AWS, both in terms of flexibility and the broad cloud stack they provide.

I would like to know other's thoughts on AWS.

[John Rusnak]

I am using google app engine.  It has a much simpler database interface than SQLAlchemy, and also pushes you in the right directions to develop your app to be scalable, if that is important to you.
I followed the directions for setting up a pyramid/pylons environment and had no trouble at all.  My app also hooks into Box.net for storage of user files (in this case music).  Deployment is also a breeze. The environment is restrictive -- which actually adds simplicity and tends (again) to enforce good practices to support scalability and minimization of resources.  The framework pushed to think of a much better design for my app than probably would have otherwise taken place.  So if you find things seeming to restrictive, don't give up right away but instead try to understand why the environment is set up the way it is.  (Feel free to contact me as well, if you like)

I also have had success with Amazon EC2.  However, the free version (as expected) supports very little bandwidth and is only meant for minimal users in a development environment.  I understand the cost is much higher and the services provided are less than other providers of this sort such as Linode.

-John

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[Bruce Wade]

Thanks for your feed back. google app engine is not an option for us because our development is already 95% complete and we need to now deploy. After developing with sqlalchemy / postgresql we can't really abandon it now to start from scratch.

[Thomas Burke]

We use AWS for facebook.com/socialreader. The app server and many of
its back-end services run in pyramid/mod_wsgi/apache/amzn-linux, we're
very happy with it. If you follow cloud best practices (architect for
boxes and services to fail, distribute geographically/multi-AZ) you
can run a solid, highly scalable (tens of thousands of concurrent
users) app.

TIB

On Oct 28, 4:18 pm, ravi teja <raviteja2...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > What are thoughts onhttp://www.heroku.com/?

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> > appengine.google.com  is not a bad way to go once python 2.7 support is made official, but you have to write your app for it, and that of course has it's own benefits and drawbacks.
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[Alice Bevan–McGregor]

> I like AWS, both in terms of flexibility and the broad cloud stack they
> provide.

I've used Amazon EC2+S3 for deployment of a number of applications and
eventually migrated them all to Rackspace Cloud. Rackspace's servers
seem far less over-allocated and thus seem more responsive. (This is
mostly a feeling from the differing boot times: < 5 seconds on
Rackspace, ~ 30 seconds on Amazon from kernel start to the last service
starting on virtually identical Gentoo distros.)

The API for Amazon, however, is extremely nice if you need automated scaling.

- Alice.